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Antitrust Week in Review

Posted  04/27/15
.  Comcast has abandoned its $45 billion offer for Time Warner Cable after U.S. regulators raised concerns that the deal would give Comcast an unfair advantage in the cable TV and Internet-based services market.  The proposed deal had been attacked by politicians, media company executives and consumer and industry groups, who worried it would create a...

The Antitrust Week In Review

Posted  04/20/15
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. .  The European Union has formally accused Google of abusing its dominance in web searches, bringing charges that could limit the giant American tech company’s moneymaking prowess.  These are the first antitrust charges asserted against...

The Antitrust Week In Review

Posted  04/13/15
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. .  Although Europe’s antitrust investigation of Google has dragged on without a settlement for nearly five years, the internet giant’s breathing room may soon come to an end.  Margrethe Vestager, the European Union’s antitrust chief,...

The Antitrust Week In Review

Posted  04/6/15
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. .  European antitrust regulators are intensifying their scrutiny of giant American tech companies.  Not only is the European Union antitrust investigation into Google heating up, but additional European countries are looking into Facebook’s...

Congress Grapples With The Right Mix For Bipartisan Data Breach Bill

Posted  04/2/15
By Leigh Orliner LaMartina Congress is actually making progress in advancing a bipartisan bill that seeks to stem the avalanche of data breaches that lately seem to threaten massive amounts of sensitive consumer financial information with alarming regularity. On March 25, 2015, the House Energy and Commerce Committee voted to approve the Data Security and Breach Notification Act of 2015 (the “Act”), which...

Supreme Court Seeks To Untangle Patent And Antitrust Principles Caught In Spider-Man’s Web

Posted  03/31/15
By Seth D. Greenstein The Supreme Court heard oral argument today on whether litigation over a toy based on Spider-Man’s web should be used to vanquish a 50-year-old precedent precluding patent owners from collecting patent royalties on expired patents under a per se rule, and to replace it, in effect, with an antitrust Rule of Reason analysis. In Kimble v. Marvel Enterprises, Inc., an individual inventor...

The Antitrust Week In Review

Posted  03/30/15
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. .  American Express has announced that it will be seeking a stay of a ruling that could ban the company’s longstanding practice of prohibiting merchants from encouraging customers to pay with lower-cost cards.  Judge Nicholas...

UK Passes Consumer Rights Bill Introducing Opt-Out Antitrust Class Actions

Posted  03/26/15
A View from Constantine Cannon’s London Office By Richard Pike The United Kingdom announced today that the Consumer Rights Bill has passed its final legislative hurdle and has been adopted as the Consumer Rights Act 2015 – heralding a major overhaul of consumer protection law in the UK. Schedule 8 of the Act contains radical new provisions designed to boost private antitrust enforcement in the UK.  Most...

The Antitrust Week In Review

Posted  03/23/15
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. .  The Federal Trade Commission is facing renewed questions about its handling of its antitrust investigation into Google, after documents revealed that an internal report had recommended stronger action.  The 2012 report, from the FTC’s bureau of...

The Antitrust Week In Review

Posted  03/16/15
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. .  The U.S. Department of Justice is putting a price tag of about $1 billion each on potential settlements that it is trying to reach with global banks that it is investigating for manipulation of currency markets, according to...
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